How to use Go with LDAP protocol [closed]

Question

How can I use Go to call and manage Ldap protocol directly? are there any packages? or must I use udp and tcp?

Answer 1

There is no LDAP library in the Go standard libraries, but a quick Google search reveals several you could try:

• https://github.com/mmitton/ldap
• https://github.com/tonnerre/go-ldap

This second one is actually a fork of the first one. On github you can always view the open issues, last update and forking network (https://github.com/mmitton/ldap/network) to get a pretty good sense of which library you should use when there is a lot of forking.

If you need a library for something omitted in the Go standard libraries there are several good places to look:

• Always start with a quick Google search
• Checkout: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs / http://go-lang.cat-v.org/library-bindings
• And: http://godoc.org/
• And: http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects

If all of those fail you and you don't feel up to creating your own implementation, keep in mind you can always use cgo to call C code (such as one of the many C LDAP libraries for example) from Go.

Answer 2

Thought I should add my ten cents here. It is an old post, but here it is nonetheless

I used the https://github.com/mavricknz/ldap library after using the mmitton/ldap one as mentioned by voidlogic above. The problem with the mmitton lib is that it does not handle escape characters very well in the filter.

The test filter: (&(objectClass=user)(cn=wickd(bracketTest )))  Escaped Filter:  (&(objectClass=user)(cn=wickd\28bracketTest \29)) 

The MMitton library just came back with a filter compile error even with the escaped filter. Loaded the Mavricknz lib and it worked. Even comes with EscapeFilter function! brilliance!

Anyhow... Thought I should post this for anyone that had the same struggle as I did :)